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Jennifer Beer is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where she works in the Psychology Department focusing on social and personality psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. Her work centers around social neuroscience, self, emotion, and social cognition. She investigates how self-perceptions and emotions influence decision-making and social interactions, employing behavioral methods including facial action coding system (FACS) and peer-reporting, along with advanced neuroscience techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Her research lab delves into the processes that underlie appropriate social functioning and how these processes contribute to interpersonal dynamics. This multifaceted approach aims to address critical questions in social cognition through both experimentally controlled and observational methods.
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